A free press can only exist where there is private control over the means of production
LUDWIG VON MISESThe real bosses in the capitalist system of market economy are the consumers. They by their buying and by their abstention from buying decide who should own the capital and run the plants. They determine what should be produced and in what quantity and quality.
More Ludwig von Mises Quotes
-
-
The whole grim apparatus of oppression and coercion, policemen, customs guards, penal courts, prisons, in some countries even executioners, had to be put into action in order to destroy the gold standard.
LUDWIG VON MISES -
The first requisite for a better social order is the return to unrestricted freedom of thought and speech.
LUDWIG VON MISES -
Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things.
LUDWIG VON MISES -
The standard of living of the common man is higher in those countries which have the greatest number of wealthy entrepreneurs.
LUDWIG VON MISES -
For destruction is the essence of it. It produces nothing, it only consumes what the social order based on private ownership in the means of production has created.
LUDWIG VON MISES -
Tyranny is the political corollary of socialism, as representative government is the political corollary of the market economy.
LUDWIG VON MISES -
He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.
LUDWIG VON MISES -
It is the soil in which the seeds of freedom are nurtured and in which the autonomy of the individual and ultimately all intellectual and material progress are rooted.
LUDWIG VON MISES -
Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.
LUDWIG VON MISES -
The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion.
LUDWIG VON MISES -
The main propoganda trick of supporters of the allegedly “progressive” policy of government control is to blame capitalism for all that is unsatisfactory in present-day conditions and to extol the blessings of socialism. They have never attempted to prove their fallacious dogmas.
LUDWIG VON MISES -
Under capitalism everybody provides for their own needs by serving others.
LUDWIG VON MISES -
The mark of the creative mind is that it defies a part of what it has learned.
LUDWIG VON MISES -
Government is the only institution that can take a valuable commodity like paper, and make it worthless by applying ink.
LUDWIG VON MISES -
The causes of all panics, crashes and depressions can be summed up in only four words: the misuse of credit.
LUDWIG VON MISES